A professional who tends machine that shapes and cooks dough to make tortillas and corn chips. Respnsibilities include:

• Kneads masa (cornmeal dough) into loaves as masa emerges from corn-grinding machine and places masa into hopper of shaping machine.
• Starts machine to flatten dough between rollers, cut it into shape, and convey shaped dough through baking oven to make tortillas, or frying tank to make corn chips.
• Inspects cooked tortillas or corn chips for color, size, and texture and regulates cooking temperature and conveying speed as required.
• May be designated according to product made as Corn-Chip Maker; Tortilla Maker.